Darlene’s Book World
Welcome, book dragons and book lovers!
This corner of the internet is dedicated to the introverted book reader who as a youngster crawled under the covers and read by flashlight. The person who waited in line for hours for a book release and then stayed up all night reading just to finish the book!
We’ll be celebrating all things book-related including bookshelf tours, discussions, reviews, and more. I’ll also be covering how writers can learn from novels the way I did in the last few years — and it changed my writer life!
Come celebrate the written word with me.
Best reading,
Darlene
Recommended Reading
DarWrites Book Review Criteria
How to Read Like a Book Dragon: a Reader’s Manifesto
How to Start a Writing Conversation: Advice from 3 Writers
My Writings
Bones and Stones: An Anthropologist remembers some of the darkest and lightest times of her life while dealing with PTSD.
Day of the Dead: A breakup story with a twist.
The Legacy: The makings of a superhero.
The Shovel: Mom vs. a serial killer.
If you liked these, please check out my Publications List!
Book Reviews, Annotations, and Literature
The Ashes of Britannia | Haley Elizabeth Garwood
At the Mountains of Madness | H. P. Lovecraft
The Casual Vacancy | J. K. Rowling
The Champion of Barésh | Susan Grant
Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare
The Falling Woman | Pat Murphy
Heart of a Lion | Stephen Zimmer
Ice Trilogy | Vladimir Sorokin
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler | Italo Calvino
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin
Not Your Mother’s Food Storage | Kathy Bray and Jan Barker
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil | Nicolai V. Gogol
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut
Sleepwalker | Brandy L. Rivers
The Stones of Kaldaar | Tameri Etherton
Thunder Horizon | Stephen Zimmer
When Ash Remains | Dena Garson
The Wild Swans at Coole | Yeats
The Woman Warrior | Maxine Hong Kingston
The Year the Horses Came | Mary Mackey
“Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” | Nathaniel Hawthorne
Interviews & Visiting Writers
Larry Fowler — Do You Write for Readers?
Athena Grayson – Writing Business Mistakes, or Learn From My Fail
JC Hay — Piercing the Shadows of Cyberpunk
Therese Martin — A Relatively Painless Research Strategy
Stacey Oberle — Breaking the Rules
Alexandra Panic — Mamma Writes: On Writing and Teaching
Theresa Parker — A Blueprint to Becoming a Published Writer
Brandy L. Rivers — Interconnecting Stories
Veronica Scott — Three Things Times Three
Chris Weigand — Don’t Melt
Chris Weigand | Stacey Oberlee | Darlene Reilley — How to Start a Writing Conversation: Advice from 3 Writers
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And if you’re really into the reading and writing thing, check out my book, 1,001 Plots to Get You Started.
Thanks for stopping by! By the way – I love talking about books! Visit me on goodreads or let’s chat!
